KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business
2026

KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business

World Premiere.

Through extraordinary interviews and richly textured archive, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business restores humanity to one of Australia's most divisive cultural conflicts, returning the story to the women who lived it.

Director

Tracey Rigney

Runtime

91 Minutes

Country

Australia

Classification

Unclassified 15+

Few events have exposed the fault lines of modern South Australia as profoundly as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair. Combining extraordinary character interviews with richly textured archival footage from the 1980s and 1990s, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business plunges back into the political frenzy that engulfed the state, as Ngarrindjeri women's sacred knowledge collided with powerful development interests, forcing the courts to grapple with questions they were never designed to answer. Revealing Kumarangk as a living place where birth, burial and ceremony are inseparable, the film restores humanity to a conflict too often reduced to politics and headlines, returning this defining chapter of South Australian history to the women who lived it.

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Film Credits

Director

Tracey Rigney

Year

2026

Country

Australia

Language

English & Ngarrindjeri

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature Documentary

Program Strand

Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund

Producer

Joshua Trevorrow & Carolyn Johnson

Cinematographer

Johanis Lyons-Reid

Editor

Tania Nehme & Andrea Lang

Music

Amanda Brown & Jerome Oosting

Film Source

Bonsai Films

Genre

ActivismDocumentaryFirst NationsPolitics & Women

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